Camunda AI Agent

Build agentic AI processes in Camunda 8.8+: an LLM driver (the AI Agent connector, Sub-process variant) applied to an ad-hoc subprocess with tools modeled as BPMN activities. Covers shape, prompts, tool modeling with fromAi(), sub-flow tools, and multi-turn agent context.

The older Task variant (AI Agent connector on a service task paired with an external multi-instance ad-hoc subprocess and explicit feedback loop) is documented in references/ai-agent-task.md for the niche cases where you need to audit or intercept every tool call. The Sub-process variant is the recommended choice for everything else, and is what the rest of this skill teaches.

Prerequisites

• Camunda 8.8+ cluster (the AI Agent connector ships in 8.8+)
• c8ctl CLI installed and a profile configured — see camunda-c8ctl
• A provider, exact model identifier, and names of its existing connector secrets, supplied by the user. Store secret values as Camunda cluster secrets, never in the BPMN file. For local c8run, see camunda-c8ctl for the secrets bootstrap flow.

Provider Configuration